Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Hotel rooms
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 10 threads.
People raised many different problems with Hotel rooms, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- See-through glass walls make bathrooms awkward and uncomfortable to use2025-11-28
- Shower head points away from the person unless they hold it2025-11-27
- Sockets have an unintuitive spring-loaded panel that must be twisted to insert a plug2025-04-10
- Many clocks force hours/minutes buttons and lack a way to test the alarm2023-10-06
- Could not find the reading lamp's switch; it was an unmarked flush flip switch2023-07-18
- Hard to figure out how to fully shut the TV off2023-05-30
- Next guest can't figure out how to change the TV input back2023-01-13
- Faucets are hard to figure out; one needed a hidden button press to unlock the dial2022-07-18
- Computer-controlled hotel light switches are harder to use than regular switches2016-03-11
- Dark rooms with weak master lighting force guests to switch on every lamp2015-06-12
- Has to work out how each hotel shower's controls operate2011-10-03